INDEX. 



405 



Race-horses, appear at their best speed 

 when they are not so, or can they be, 

 but for a very short space of time and 

 distance, ii. 78. 



can go at the rate of one 



hundred miles an hour, ii. 79. 



' cannot all be got to look 



the same as to condition, ii. 97. 



considered public property. 



i. 1. 



, excuses for their running 



badly, unless very manifest, mislead 

 owners. In nine cases out of ten, the 

 truth is, the horse was not good 

 enough or not fast enough to do 

 better, ii. 8:3. 



, expense of, i. 20. 



— and fox-hounds, expenses 



of, i. 21. 



, great advantages derived 



from stout ones, ii. 90. 



-, howfar would accustoming 



them to carry weight be advisable, 

 ii. 102. 



, in public stables, like chil- 

 dren at school, ii. 99. 



■ , judging of their condition 



by their looks, ii. 97. 

 , instance of peculiar stout- 

 ness in a little one, ii. 96. 



must alter their style of 



going with increased weight, ii. 103. 



not all like Champagne. 



worth bottling, ii. 101. 



not taught leaping, i. 178. 



, owners should attend to 



them, get some one else to do so, or 

 give up racing, ii. 101. 



should run on the day 



for which they are prepared, ii. 347. 

 -, their backs much injured 



from inattention to their saddles, ii. 

 141. 



-, owners of, should under- 



Raee-horses, useful ones does not mean 



.slow ones, ii. 91. 

 . , we learn their best forte 



stand the practical part of training, 

 ii. 121. 



, safe ones to own, ii. 84. 



their action not usually 



sufficiently attended to as colts, ii, 

 110. 



■ , their different powers in 



finishing a race, ii. 87. 



— , their peculiar qualities 



when too late, ii. 94. 

 , whether in 



their 



very 



very difficult to ascertain accurately, 

 ii. 81. 



ii. 



108. 



their style of going, 

 useful ones, ii. 89. 



best form, not to be ascertained by 

 their appearance, ii. 352. 

 Racing colts, freakish, i. 117. 



, gradually instructed, i. 



120. 

 Racing, capital required for, i. 21. 



, first inducement to, i. 4. 



as a sport, i. 9. 



, almost always a loss, i. 9. 



not ruinous, i. 9. 



, real love for it, i. 13. 



not a leveller of grades, i. 16. 



encouraging gambling, remarks 



on, i. 18. 



, little cruelty in, i. 46. 



Race riders of former days, ii. 42. 

 Rampant horses, how instructed, ii. 



325. 

 Rascal and the Major, i. 330. 

 Rascal, Mr., his tricks, i. 305. 



, quickening a sale, i. 311. 



Rascalities of some servants if per- 

 mitted to purchase horses, i. 200. 

 Ready money paid for horses by dealers, 



i. 212. 

 Rearing bit, i. 102. 

 Rebellious thoughts and chambermaids, 



ii. 299. 

 Refinement and the unrefined, ii. 331. 

 Repositories, a horse being sent to one, 

 how treated, i. 355 — 366. 



, owners of, defrauded i. 



352. 



, the only way to send a 



horse to, i. 417. 

 Rhinoceruses bad hacks, ii. 132. 

 Riders of the right sort, i. 1 65. 

 Riding-boy, anecdote of, i. 115. 

 Riding colts, remarks on, ii. 223. 



schools proper for ladies' horses, 



ii. 273, 

 with judgment equal to diminish- 

 ing weight, ii. 43. 

 Ring horses, good ones very difficult to 

 get, ii. 326. 



, how instructed, ii. 316. 



Road expenses and accidents to dealers' 



horses, i. 21 1. 

 Roads, bad, make sad havoc with harness 



horses, ii. 144. 

 Roarers as sires, remarks on, ii. 193. 

 Robins, Mr., advertising a lady's horses, 

 i. 321. 



